TOP IMAGE: Electron shell of Ununpentium (Greg Robson / Pumbaa)
___________________________Existence of Element 115 Confirmed
Aug 28, 2013An international team of physicists led by scientists from Lund University [Sweden (founded 1425)] has found new evidence for the existence of a synthetic super-heavy element with atomic number 115.
First observed in 2003, the element 115 has yet to be named officially, but it is temporarily called Ununpentium, or Uup. It is also known as eka-bismuth.
These findings confirm earlier measurements performed by physicists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, and scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States.
“This was a very successful experiment and is one of the most important in the field in recent years”, said Prof Dirk Rudolph of Lund University, who is a first author of a paper accepted for publication in the Physical Review Letters.
(via Sci-News.com)